Microcosm Quotes - Page 2

• Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

  Rowan Williams

  Today, Wells

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• There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.

  Aleister Crowley

  Angel, Magic, Uniting

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I am in the world to change the world.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Life, World, Changing The World

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• The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time.  As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.

  Deepak Chopra

  Soul, Body, Stardust

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• What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.

  Sigmund Freud

  Doubt, Principles, Purpose

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

  Andrew Weil

  Beautiful, Selfish, Passion

  "One Simple Resolution: Gardening" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• He who is going to be a magician will recognize that life is dependent on the work of the elements in the various planes and spheres. It is to be seen in great and in small things, in the microcosm as well as in the macrocosm, temporarily and eternally, everywhere there are powers in action.

  Franz Bardon

  Magic, Elements, Spheres

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• Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.

  Terence McKenna

  Memories, Past, Discovery

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

  Jean Klein

  Inspirational, Reality, World

  Jean Klein (2006). “Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest”, p.25, New Harbinger Publications

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• We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.

  Charles Darwin

  Stars, Self, Heaven

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The Internet is a microcosm of society.

  Robert E. Kahn

  Internet

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• Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have different intentions and different points of view.

  Karina Longworth

  Views, People, Hollywood

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

  E. B. White

  World, Shade, Circus

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.106, Cornell University Press

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• There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Sex, Real

  "Steve Martin on Objects of Beauty". Interview with Rita Braver, www.cbsnews.com. December 5, 2010.

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• Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story of a group of men obsessed with putting a trivial soft drink "within an arm's reach of desire." But at the same time, it is a microcosm of American history. Coca-Cola grew up with the country, shaping and shaped by the times. The drink not only helped to alter consumption patterns, but attitudes toward leisure, work, advertising, sex, family life, and patriotism.

  Mark Pendergrast

  Country, Sex, Attitude

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• It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Moon, Mind

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• Now by knowing absolute truth you understand each other much more. That means a collective consciousness, a new dimension in your awareness. You can feel others on your finger tips and if you know how to correct your centers you can help them. Then who is the other? The microcosm becomes the macrocosm.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Country, Heart, Simple

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.102

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• War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.

  Zainab Salbi

  War, Way, Intense

  "'War Is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, truthout.org. June 7, 2011.

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• Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.

  Dorothy Norman

  Hero, Creative, Battle

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• Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

  Samuel Foote

  Talent, States, Great Talent

  Samuel Foote (1799). “The works of Samuel Foote, esq. ...”, p.243

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• Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm. Free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. Our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.

  Camille Paglia

  Drama, Mirrors, Cells

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• This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.

  William Harvey

  Heart, Blood, Finals

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• If knowledge and wisdom keep the same pace in development, the adept is enabled to grasp all the laws of the microcosm and the microcosm, not only from the point of view of wisdom, but also from the intellectual side, that is, in a bipolar way, to perceive and utilize them for his own development.

  Franz Bardon

  Views, Law, Bipolar

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• We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

  Terence McKenna

  Perfect, Becoming

  "Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

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